Shah Rukh Khan Attends Screening of Zero Trailer in Kolkata, Reveals he is Sad he Never Got a National Film Award

Shah Rukh was at the Kolkata International Film Festival where the Zero trailer was being showcased.

Superstar Shah Rukh Khan feels sad that he is yet to receive a national film award and that none of his movies have ever made it to events such as the Kolkata International Film Festival, which showcased the trailer of the actor’s upcoming movie Zero at the opening ceremony on Saturday.

The hugely popular actor, addressing the opening ceremony at the Netaji Indoor Stadium, said he was invited to film festivals either to dance or say some nice words welcoming people, and not for any intellectual deliberations.

“I have done 70 films so far, but the only reason film festivals call me is either to dance or come and just speak about welcoming the delegates, and being nice to people, and not do anything intellectual. “Reason for that is I am not very intelligent. And I am not very smart,” he said, in an apparently zestful tone while speaking at the opening ceremony of the country’s second oldest film festival attended by a crowd of over ten thousand.

However, Shah Rukh said he has now become “smarter” and more “intellectual” after getting to know Kolkata while spearheading the Indian Premier League side Kolkata Knight Riders for 12 years.

“And the 12 years that I have been in Kolkata with a cricket team, Kolkata Knight Riders, I am becoming smarter. And I am becoming much more intellectual, spending time in Bengal, with all the wonderful stalwarts of cinema, and all the people I keep meeting. So, maybe, in the next ten years, there will come a time, when one of my film will get selected for an international festival of this kind of rating. It’s really unfortunate and sad, I have never got a national award,” he said, soon after receiving a crystal trophy from the organisers of the KIFF.

“The only award is what I got today, that KIFF, that Mamatadi (West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee) so sweetly gave me. It’s a special crystal award,” he said, to a tumultuous applause.

Shah Rukh then sought Mamata’s permission to “behave a little cheaply” and screen the trailer of Zero.

“So I want to seek Mamatadi’s permission and behave a little cheaply, if that’s all right, because if you have a younger brother like me, there is full freedom to behave as you wish to. So I know that none of my films will ever, ever, ever, ever, ever be played in a festival. They don’t deserve too, maybe. But I have got a trailer of my film ‘Zero’, so I want to request Mamatadi,” he said.

The trailer was greeted with huge cheers and shouts of “Shah Rukh, Shah Rukh” from the film buffs.